Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker and CEO John Lilly: The Full D7 Session
by Kara Swisher
Posted on July 8, 2009 at 1:27 AM PT
As CEO and chairman of Mozilla, respectively, John Lilly and Mitchell Baker have overseen the huge growth of Firefox, the innovative open-source browser.
With almost 23 percent of the Web browser market in recent surveys, it is the second most popular of such software globally, after Microsoft (MSFT) Internet Explorer, which holds just over 66 percent.
But there other competitors too, including Apple (AAPL) and now Mozilla partner Google (GOOG), which is bearing down upon it with its latest “don’t-be-evil” browser bulldozer, Chrome.
The pair talk about all this and more in an interview with Walt Mossberg at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference.
Here’s the video of the full D7 session:
Comments
Seriously, why does Mozilla get all this free press and such high-falutin’ access? Is Silicon Valley still so besotted with itself that even failed companies are lionized simply because they fight with Microsoft?
Firefox is a generic browser, delivering undifferentiated content, and exists solely because Google finds it in their interest to pay a sweetheart amount of money in order to keep Microsoft’s browser in check. Bully for Firefox… how proud that bastion of innovation called Mozilla must be.
What a waste of an hour on your stage.
Posted by Phil Gilbert at July 8th, 2009 at 5:44 am